What is Rsyslog?
It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. It is able to accept inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to the results to diverse destinations.
Rsyslog is a tool in the Log Management category of a tech stack.
Rsyslog is an open source tool with 2.1K GitHub stars and 655 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Rsyslog's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Rsyslog?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use Rsyslog in their tech stacks, including DigitalOcean, VisualVest, and Kartaca.
Developers
30 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Rsyslog.
Rsyslog Integrations
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Splunk, and Coralogix are some of the popular tools that integrate with Rsyslog. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Rsyslog.
Rsyslog's Features
- Multi-threading
- TCP, SSL, TLS, RELP
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and more
- Filter any part of syslog message
Rsyslog Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Rsyslog?
Logstash
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.
Fluentd
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Fluentd helps you unify your logging infrastructure.
Filebeat
It helps you keep the simple things simple by offering a lightweight way to forward and centralize logs and files.
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
